"Small Abstract Painting, a 17-person group show up through August has a smidgenof everything in the abstract department from expressionism to minimalism, geometricto hard-edge. The experienced eyes and enormous contacts of Barry and one of the artists he represents, John Pomara, organized this non-confrontational hot weathershow - medium, size, style and subject matter-wise.

John Pomara received his MFA from East Texas State University and serves as a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas. For assistance in appreciating his deceptively uncomplicated painting contribution, study this excerpt from his artist’s statementtitled Digital-dating. “In my continued investigation I desire to co-opt the use of the digital in a conceptual maneuver to transform what appears as utopian architectural schematics into a more graphic painterly state of appearance. With the globalization of urbanism creating larger sprawling metropolises, the idea of ‘place’ takes on a visual motif of design and state of flux.”

Lorraine Tady received her M.F.A from S.M.U. and teaches at the University of Texas at Dallas. Lorraine is definitely at a mature point in her committed career as evidenced in her dominant, definitive abstracted miniature painting. “My work is an investigation.The process employs diagramming, mapping, plan/elevation, cross-section, translation/re-translation inquiry (or subverting the clarity theses systemic intentionsmay imply) allowing my images to be intuitively found, extracted, analyzed, shifted, represented in various arrays.”

Quote of the moment (out of Lorraine’s Artist Statement) by my dear friend CharlesDee Mitchell, “to some extent all artists are dreaming…simply reorganizing and rearranging their experience in and out of the world, and putting it back into their art.”

John Holt Smith received a B.F.A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara;the studio of this Fort Worth native is behind the well-known Joe T. Garcia’s restaurant. His work has appeared on the Neiman’s Christmas catalog cover, and in large scale commissions for Terminal D of DFW Airport and the Joule Hotel in Dallas. His specialized photo-editing process allows him to manipulate a cross-section of one of his photographs of human eyes or brightly colored poppies, for example, into uniform abstract concentric intricately layered circles that “shimmer.” He discovered through his “ultra-methodical approach” a process (spectroscopy) that captures light froman object in space and uses it to analyze its composition, position and rate of movement in order to create a “multi-dimensional luminosity.”